Services

Academic Advising

Computer Lab

The Bolinga Center provides computers for students to study, print, and complete group projects.

Lending Library

The Bolinga Center provides textbooks for students to utilize for entry-level courses. These textbooks are for areas of study that include history, math, psychology, biology, African American studies, social work, women’s studies, and sociology.

Tutoring Services

The Bolinga Center provides tutorial support for eligible students in courses such as math, science, and the social sciences. Each semester the center disseminates information about tutorial services to the university community. Additional onsite tutoring services are provided in Chemistry 1100, Biology 1070, Math, Statistics, Engineering 1010, Calculus II, and Writing.

Center Resources

Referring students to appropriate campus resources for additional advising, counseling, and/or other support services.

Keeping students informed of all local activities and programs relating to African American culture and experience.

Consulting on the maintenance of African American Culture materials in the Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Consulting Diversity Initiatives and how it relates to Wright State University's vision.

Informing the community on all events sponsored by BBCRC through the quarterly newsletter, Heritage.

Online Resources

Black History Museum
Graphics and full text of interactive exhibits on the Black Resistance, The Tuskegee Airmen, Jackie Robinson, The Black Panther Party, The Million Man March, Black American troops in World War II and more.

Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery
Alphabetically arranged entries provide extensive definitions and discussions of the social, institutional, intellectual, and political aspects of slavery in the United States.

Encyclopedia of Black America
Provides a detailed analysis of the past, present, and future of Blacks in America, including information on organizations, colleges, and biographies of prominent persons.

The HistoryMakers
Video oral history archive dedicated to preserving African American history, with biographies and videos of people who have made significant contributions to American life. Please visit

Emory University
Emory's African American collections are strong in Black Print Culture, the world of literature created by and for, and often published within, the African American community from the early 19th century through the 20th century.

University at Buffalo/SUNY
When the UB Black Studies Program was established in 1969, it was during what one of its founders, Jim Pappas, describes as "a heady, exciting time-one that illustrated the best and the worst of academic life." The program, which evolved into the Department of African American Studies in 1973 as perhaps the first truly interdisciplinary academic field at UB, will celebrate its 30th anniversary in the 1999-2000 academic year.

University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana
The African American Studies and Research Program of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign originated in 1969 as the academic branch of the Faculty Student Commission on Afro-American Life and Culture.

National Afro-American Museum
The National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center is a 20 minute drive from downtown Dayton, Ohio, and is located 1 mile west of State Route 42 North, adjacent to Central State University. The Center comprises just under 50,000 sq. ft. of space, including administrative offices in the Carnegie library. The Great Hall in the museum is 8,000 square feet, and the galleries that comprise the exhibition space each measure some 5,200 square feet.